In menswear, Elbaz became known for gently updating classic pieces with modern, luxurious touches in fabric and shape.
If he has gently updated that ethos for the Internet age, the building is still more a paean to the past than to the future.
Puccini's most popular opera is gently updated to the eve of World War I in this first new production of City Opera's spring season.
In the Chapins' hands, even lesser-known songs like "Sigh, Cry, Almost Die" are as compelling as their (gently) updated versions of classics like "All I Have to Do Is Dream" and "Love Hurts".
At the time I promoted that idea with anarchistic thoughts and referring people to other anarchistic thinkers, but I have gently updated it to "no responsibility but to yourself".
That action is gently updated to the present day and beautifully observed by Loy and his cast: every characterisation - from Thomas Allen's unkempt Music Master and John Graham Hall's louche, gum-chewing Dancing Master through the seedy retinue surrounding Marlis Petersen's predaciously sensual Zerbinetta to Sophie Koch's utterly serious and passionate Composer - is carefully wrought.
And the New York City Opera offers a nice production (gently and not obtrusively updated to World War I), which has its last performance of the season tomorrow, and a nice young cast.
By popular demand, the weekly local paper New Times recently updated its Deposed Dictator tour, gently guiding readers from the family home of Haitian strongman Raoul Cedras to the former residence of Colombia's late lamented cocaine kingpin, Pablo Escobar.
Of course, it is a perfectly natural occurrence for modern technology to collide gently with aging laws, and it will serve to spur the state into updating its policies.
Updated at 3.28pm GMT 3.21pm GMT 33rd over: South Africa 65-3 (Amla 38, de Villiers 14) Amla digs out a gently reversing attempted yorker from Pattinson.
